Karim Kai Ani, creator of Mathalicious, wrote: In July 2012, Valerie Strauss in two columns in Washington Post panned Sal Khan and his efforts of bringing free education to every home. In addition, his Academy is actually pretty compatible with my baby: incremental reading (see: incremental video). In this text, I only have words of praise for Sal. I also dabble in education, however, my appreciation of Khan's work is great enough to entirely eliminate the problem of envy. He wants to see a better world, but he cannot see that Sal's work is truly a step to educational salvation. A dedicated teacher who puts his students well ahead of the problem of low pay may actually feel that Sal is doing harm to the learning process. A math teacher who perfected his trade for decades will naturally wonder if slapdash videos watched on a mobile phone can really replace a loving teacher's personalized approach to a struggling student. That envy can grow exponentially with a perception of undeserved praise. It is all but human to be a bit envious of somebody else's success. Instead, there is one undeniable factor: Sal Khan is a rock star of education. However, those are not directly related to the criticism of Khan Academy. For example, the impact of school on addictions or mental health. Naturally, there are many others aspects of schooling that are hard to see from within the system without direct comparison with unschoolers or democratic schools. Reliance of intelligence on free choice. Those poorly understood principles include: Good teachers can spend decades in the system without grasping those essential principles of free learning that are obscured by the distortive lens of schooling. The criticism is largerly derived from a teacher's fish tank perspective. At the same time, a great deal of teachers are harshly critical of Sal Khan. 4 Incremental approach to trajectory optimization.
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